Quotes By Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Love alone could waken love.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.